| MATERIAL |
WILL ACCEPT |
HOW |
PLEASE DON’T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass |
Only food and beverage jars and bottles that are brown, green or clear |
Rinse - Remove lid and rings - Label may stay on - Please do not break |
No window glass, pyrex, light bulbs, dishes or mirrors |
| Plastic |
Milk & water jugs, and any color liter soda bottles are being accepted |
Rinse - Remove lids and rings, flatten - Labels may stay on |
No non-food containers, colored plastics like soap bottles, or styrofoam; no butter tubs or ice cream containers with a #2 on bottom |
| Aluminum & tin cans |
Aluminum cans, tin cans, clean foil and pie or food trays |
Rinse - Please remove labels - Remove both ends of tin cans & flatten |
No paint cans, aerosol cans, or dirty food trays |
| Cardboard |
Corrugated and food boxes |
Flatten - Remove tape, staples and string |
Do not set in rain or snow Keep dry & out of sun |
| Newspaper, magazines & catalogs |
All clean, dry, newsprint, office paper, phone books |
Stack in brown paper bags - Protect from sun & rain |
Please remove plastic wrappers & staples |
** Bundles of plastic store & grocery bags are considered trash. Do not include these bags with your recycling.
Please help us help you! Place your recyclables on curb for pick-up by 7:30 a.m. on your collection day; the appropriate Thursday or Friday of the month. Strong winds and neighborhood pets will scatter trash if it is not rinsed or prepared properly. It is not the collectors responsibility to clean up messes. Prepared glass, plastic and metal cans should be placed in secured see-through bags or bundled for curbside pick-up. Please place newspaper and magazines in brown paper bags and flatten cardboard. When delivering recyclables to collection bins, please separate into appropriate container.
Remember: People, not machines collect and sort your recyclables. Please treat them with respect by following these easy guidelines. For more information call City Hall at 632-2177.
NOTICE TO CAMERON RESIDENTS
PARTICIPATING IN THE
VOLUNTARY CURBSIDE
RECYCLING PROGRAM
Recycling Bins Now Available at City Hall
In some parts of Cameron, ordinary household trash is now picked up on the same day that curbside recycling occurs. That means the trash-haulers may mistakenly pick up recyclables mixing them with the regular trash.
In order to ensure that recyclables are collected separately, we have adopted a program used successfully by a number of other communities. The program involves the use of bright green recycling bins in which recyclables are placed and which are set curbside. Here’s how it works:
Obtain your recycling bin at City Hall. There is a $3.00 deposit per bin.
Bag your recyclables as before, and place the bags in or around the bin curbside on the usual recycling pick-up days (Thursdays and Fridays every other week).
You only need one bin. If you have more recyclables than will fit, simply place bagged materials near the bin at the curb. Make sure they are clearly separated from your household trash.
Following a short grace period allowing residents time to obtain bins, the use of recycling bins will be required in order to participate in the curbside pick-up program. The 24-hour drop-off center will remain open at Sutherland’s.
Regards,
City of Cameron
Shellby L. Hendee
Development Director
THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING
Recycling Drop-Off
The drop-off recycling bins on North Walnut allow citizens to bring in recyclables at their convenience. The bins themselves are made from recycled plastic soda and milk bottles. Cameron also offers weekly curbside pickup of recyclable materials. Work-release inmates from the Western Missouri Correctional Center transport recyclables to Clinco Industries in Cameron for processing. The program is funded by a 75-cent monthly fee per household.
Clinco Industries
Clinco Industries provides over 50 job positions to handicapped employees. The company offers sub-contract services, packaging, woodworking, and window replacement in addition to maintaining highway rest areas. Clinco also has become the area’s leading recycling processor collecting and sorting recyclables for sale to companies which use recycled products in manufacturing. The Clinco Store sells hand-crafted woodenware to the public.